Adrian Middleton

I normally do not leave bad reviews, but after more than a year dealing with this situation, I feel people deserve to know about my experience. I paid over $4,100 to help me with a DBPR case, and since then I have dealt with constant delays, unanswered calls, excuses, and lack of communication. Fo...r the last 3 weeks alone, I have called repeatedly trying to get updates and responses, but my calls and messages continue to go unanswered. Every time there is an excuse or another story. At one point, I was told personal issues and problems at home were the reason for the delays, but I later found out the exact same explanation was being given to other clients as well. The most disappointing part was appearing in front of the board and feeling completely unprepared and unsupported after trusting this office for over a year. I gave many chances before writing this review because I truly wanted to resolve this privately, but nothing changed. I have saved messages, call logs, and documentation from this entire process. In my personal opinion, the communication, professionalism, and handling of my case were completely unacceptable. I hope this review helps other people be more careful and ask questions before hiring representation

I heard this Lawyer to get a false junction off of me. He sounded great over the phone. I then violated the injunction by throwing a sign into an easement and now I’m looking at $9000 in fines I had to find a new attorney. I paid him $1000 haven’t heard from him in two years. He’s impossible to get i...n contact with the sat in his office twice over an hour and a half waiting for him to appear. He would tell me things would get thrown out and not even over the phone. It was over messages. I have continuous messages trying to reach him. He acts like he doesn’t even know what’s going on in my case all in all he is not someone I would go with he threw in some things in my face talking about. I’m taking this on for free yada yada yada and you never finish the first job. I would not have violated by throwing a sign in a ditch if you would have done your job when I hired you two months before hand and got this fake injunction off of me, shown them the videos that I had and it would’ve gotten done two years later I am passed my dispute. I cannot do anything on behalf of myself because he took so long. I just have to accept the consequences and not fight back. I had to hire someone else they got it done within three weeks. I still lost out because Lawyer took so long to handle my case. I had to just deal with it. What evidence was presented could not fight against my behalf could only lower it. And I was not about to go with Adrian Middleton to take me to trial.

I hired Adrian and he's great on the phone but has not returned calls and when he does it's to prolong his cat and mouse game. Often saying I'll call you back and not a word, terrible communication and reliability. I have been registered with the Florida Bar in the past and worked with many attorneys.... In my personal opinion you want someone who will keep his or her promises about things they can control. Things happen but, in my case, not filing simple documents time and time again with disrespectful knowledge to a client is condescending. If you want disrespect from your attorney and very limited if any callbacks, roll the dice and call Adrian Middleton. In my case, I supplied documents and paid my invoices. I was even told my documents were in order, yet they haven't been filed with the DBPR, to date. It's my family's livelihood, not his! If you don't have the time or others are more important, don't take more cases than you can handle. I only hope my documents are handle delivered to the DBPR as promised for almost 2 weeks. Oh, yes part of his pitch is that he is close to the DBPR and that's one of the things that helps his clients. They can hand deliver the docs and save people from snail mail, get a verification receipt, and make sure the government employees can't say they lost your documents. Adrian's office is so close and I'm so far-far away from my prepared documents being delivered by hand. 1 Star is a gift. I emailed him for a PDF copy of my retainer that was signed online using DocuSign, my bad. I can only wonder how long that's going to take, if ever. Time will tell. I fired Middleton and paid to finish the application Adrian Middleton was to complete and file. He filed documents on the qualifier for my company with a check and I now have what looks like a bounced check connected to my account that I paid him for prior. Refer to Yelp Peter R review says he paid attorney Adrian the funds to pay on his behalf like me and when Adrian wrote a check to the DBPR it bounced. I just got a letter from the DBPR today 2026-03-20 and it said the same thing. When I filed it was with a credit card that was approved so his check looks like it bounced also. What a hack and his Google Business Profile as of today says Permanently Closed (Good News for the People of Florida) I found out yesterday that Adrian Middleton bounced a check "on my behalf" and a co-worker to the DBPR. It looks like this is not a "one-off" problem. I guess after 10 years he forgot about Ethics, Escrow Accounts, Commingling of Funds maybe? I can't say, maybe I'm wrong, but he did bounce 2 checks. Florida Bar Rules, particularly Rule 5-1.1 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, mandate that attorneys must maintain separate trust accounts (also known as escrow accounts) for client funds that are not yet earned or are to be held in trust. When an attorney receives funds from a client, such as filing fees, they are typically required to deposit those funds into a trust account until the funds are used for their intended purpose or earned.

We hired Mr. Middleton, Adrian, to help us with visitation with our grandchildren. We paid him $9000 initially. At first, he was kind, attentive, and seemed like he cared. After 2 months, there was no contact, no messages he doesn’t return our calls And he doesn’t answer the phone at his office. He h...as an AI person doing that. it sounds like a real person, but she’s not. It’s very discouraging and disappointing. I didn’t want to write bad review and I’ve given Mr. Middleton every opportunity to answer or call me which he has not.